An edition of Tracing your Caribbean ancestors
(2012)
Tracing your Caribbean ancestors
a national archives guide
Third edition.
by Guy Grannum
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This book is ideal for anyone who reaserching their Caribbean family history The National Archives and beyond. The National Archives holds records for many people who lived in British West Indian colonies such as emigrants, plantation owners, slaves, soldiers, sailors and transported criminals. The Archives also hold the colonial office records for the British West Indies. This includes state correspondence to and from the colonies and passenger lists. Tracing Your Caribbean Ancestors also shows readers how to use family history sources and genealogy websites and indexes beyond The National Ar.
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Table of Contents
Cover; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; GLOSSARY; C; E; M; S; W; INTRODUCTION; Overview; Further reading; 1 FIRST STEPS; 1.1 Be prepared; 1.2 How do I start my research?; 1.3 Surnames; 1.4 The Internet; 1.5 Archives and libraries; 1.6 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; 1.7 The National Archives (UK); 1.8 Digitised sources; 1.9 Ancestral origins; 1.10 Further reading and useful websites; 2 RECORDS OF THE COLONIAL OFFICE; 2.1 Original correspondence; 2.2 Entry books; 2.3 Acts; 2.4 Sessional papers; 2.5 Government gazettes; 2.6 Miscellanea.
2.7 Registers of correspondence2.8 Registers of out-letters; 2.9 Other records; 2.10 Further reading; 3 MIGRATION TO THE CARIBBEAN; 3.1 Emigration: general records; 3.2 Indentured servants; 3.3 Transportation; 3.4 Slave trade; 3.5 American loyalists; 3.6 Liberated Africans; 3.7 Indentured labourers; 4 LIFE CYCLE RECORDS; 4.1 Records of births, marriages and deaths; 4.2 Censuses and other listings; 4.3 Wills and grants of administration; 5 LAND AND PROPERTY RECORDS; 5.1 Land grants; 5.2 Maps and plans; 5.3 Plantation records; 5.4 Further reading; 6 MILITARY AND RELATED RECORDS; 6.1 Army.
6.2 Royal Navy6.3 Royal Marines; 6.4 Royal Air Force; 6.5 Merchant Navy; 7 SLAVES AND SLAVE HOLDERS; 7.1 Slave Registry; 7.2 Slave Compensation Commission; 7.3 Amelioration; 7.4 Manumissions (grants of freedom); 7.5 Acts on the status, condition and treatment of slaves; 7.6 Further reading; 8 THE COLONIAL CIVIL SERVANT; 8.1 Further reading; 9 MIGRATION FROM THE WEST INDIES; 9.1 Migration to the United Kingdom; 9.2 West Indian migration outside the United Kingdom; 10 BRITISH WEST INDIES RESOURCES; 10.1 British West Indies, general; 10.2 Anguilla; 10.3 Antigua and Barbuda; 10.4 Bahamas.
10.5 Barbados10.6 Bay Islands; 10.7 Belize (formerly British Honduras); 10.8 Bermuda; 10.9 British Virgin Islands; 10.10 Cayman Islands; 10.11 Dominica; 10.12 Federation of the West Indies; 10.13 Grenada; 10.14 Guyana (formerly British Guiana); 10.15 Jamaica; 10.16 Leeward Islands; 10.17 Montserrat; 10.18 Nevis; 10.19 St Christopher (St Kitts); 10.20 St Lucia; 10.21 St Vincent and the Grenadines; 10.22 Tobago; 10.23 Trinidad; 10.24 Turks and Caicos Islands; 10.25 Windward Islands; 11 RECORDS OF THE NON-BRITISH WEST INDIES; 11.1 Cuba; 11.2 Denmark.
11.3 Dominican Republic (formerly Santo Domingo)11.4 France; 11.5 Haiti (formerly Saint-Domingue); 11.6 Honduras; 11.7 Netherlands; 11.8 Panama; 11.9 Spain; 11.10 Sweden; 11.11 United States; Useful addresses; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W.
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